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Our ot'er customers haf followed heem like sheep! Eet iss as t'ough we had lost our star!" "Your star?" "In t'e guide-book off Monsieur Karl," Pelletan explained. "Is that such a tragedy?" "I haf always t'ought it t'e fery worst t'at could happen," said Pelletan, "but t'is iss as pad." It was only by a supreme effort that Rushford managed to choke back the chuckle which rose in his throat.
Pelletan staggered rather than walked to the door, his head in his hands, fairly overwhelmed. A moment later, Rushford saw him hurrying down the street. He got out a third cigar and settled back in his chair with a chuckle of satisfaction. "Maybe I'll get some fun out of this thing, after all," he said. "It'll offer a little diversion, anyway. Now, how shall we begin to advertise?"
"Yess, monsieur, I ran avay avay from Paris avay from France I t'ought efen of going to Amérique." "Was she so bad as all that?" asked Rushford, sympathetically. For answer, Pelletan went to the statue of Saint Geneviève, lifted it, and took from beneath it a photograph. "T'is iss she, monsieur," he said, and handed the photograph to Rushford. The latter took one look at it and passed it back.
Well, we must comfort ourselves that to-morrow will come by and by." "What do you mean by that?" asked his wife, sternly. "What sort of a day do you expect to-morrow to be?" "A pleasant day, my dear Heloise, for Citizen Toulan will have the watch again. I begged him so long, that he at last promised to exchange with Citizen Pelletan, whose turn regularly comes to- morrow.
And yet fate willed that he was to have the chance, for half an hour later, after a short conference with Monsieur Pelletan, a gentleman whom we have met before in the apartment of Lord Vernon approached him where he sat in the smoking-room, drew up a chair, and sat down beside him. "This is Mr. Rushford, isn't it?" he asked.
I can see them now, standing in a line before me, tall men and short men, stout men and thin men: Olivier, with his warlike moustache; the thin, eager face of Pelletan; young Oudin, flushed by his first duel; Mortier, with the sword-cut across his wrinkled brow. I laid aside my busby and drew my sword. "I have one favour to ask you, gentlemen," said I.
Other composers used it as well, and traces of it are found even in Auber's works. After Damcke's death Mlle. Pelletan got me to help her in this work. I wanted to change the method, but the edition would have lost its unity and she would not consent. It was time that Damcke's collaboration ended. He belonged to the tribe of German professors who have since become legion.
He thought of the comfortable bed, of the admirable cuisine he would hate to give them up. It would mean going to the other hotel, and the mere idea made him shiver. Anything but that! His host watched him in an agony of apprehension. "What does it cost a day to run this shebang?" asked the American at last. Monsieur Pelletan, with feverish haste, produced a paper from his pocket.
In speaking of the remains, they describe them as a corpse 'represented to us as that of Charles-Louis. The doctor Pelletan took out the heart, and preserved it in spirits of wine; which he gave to the deceased's sister when she had married the Duke d'Angoulême.
The last two were selected by Dumangin and Pelletan because of the former connection of M. Lassus with Mesdames de France, and of M. Jeanroy with the House of Lorraine, which gave a peculiar weight to their signatures. Gomin received them in the council-room, and detained them until the National Guard, descending from the second floor, entered to sign the minutes prepared by Darlot.
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